The Iconoclast

Public Opinion as the Most Valuable Resource
By Carl Nelson In my opinion, the current resource that is most fiercely sought is not rare earth minerals, our farmlands, fresh water, etc., but public opinion. With control of […]

Memorial Day Spirits
Remember to drink responsibly this holiday weekend. Brian Ahern produced this record on George Jones’ classic with Mark Knopfler. Here is a long-lost favorite by the great Webb Pierce. And […]

Rochdale: Jury sent to deliberate verdicts of grooming case
From the Oldham Times The jury in the trial of seven Asian men – including two from Oldham – accused of treating two teenage girls in Rochdale as “sex slaves” have retired to […]

The Reality of Religious Experience
This paper is another example of the deep wisdom contained in this book. These two sentences clear up a lot of modern confusion about the nature of religion. “Rationalism is […]

Hamas: “Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side?
By Lev Tsitrin Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” are nowhere more adventuresome than in Huck’s encounter with two frauds, the King and the Duke. The pair moves downriver from […]

Striking a Chord
By Theodore Dalrymple The poet A.E. Housman once wrote a poem about the impossibility of ignoring reality by means of permanent intoxication. The short poem ends: But men at whiles […]

Canada covers itself in shame over Israel
By Conrad Black On May 19, a joint statement was issued by the governments of the United Kingdom, France, and Canada whose principal points were: ”We call on the Israeli […]

The DC Murders: What’s Next?
By Gary Fouse Along with the shock and outrage I feel over the senseless murder of Sarah Lynn Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, two Israeli embassy employees in Washington DC, there […]

Jake Tapper’s Own ‘Original Sin’
By Victor Davis Hanson There’s a book that came out recently by Jake Tapper of CNN and Axios’ Alex Thompson called “Original Sin.” It’s about the cover-up, decline of former President […]

Are Some Racist Slurs Okay?
By Victor Davis Hanson One reason why the public turned on DEI was its insistence that roughly 70 percent of the country was stereotyped as victimizers by virtue of their […]

Equity for all
By Theodore Dalrymple With a self-satisfaction that makes Mr Pecksniff seem almost as self-doubting as Hamlet, Aviva — once known as the Norwich Union — tells us, under the rubric […]

Jewish protester charged over placard mocking terrorist leader
From the Telegraph A Jewish protester was arrested by the Metropolitan Police after he briefly held a placard satirising a Hezbollah terrorist leader, The Telegraph can reveal. The British man, […]

Antisemitism after the Washington Murders
By Roger L Simon What would the Rebbe say At the moment two young Israeli diplomats—Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim— in their twenties, the prime of their lives, Yaron […]

More Innocents Slaughtered by Arabism’s Useful Idiots, and Congresswoman Omar is left Speechless
By Gerald Honigman Two beautiful young Israelis, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, were about to be engaged, but were wantonly slaughtered instead by a know-nothing, dhimmi useful idiot of Arabs […]

Lord Conrad Black Discusses the Catholic Church with Bob Jones
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Ouch! Two Paths Diverge
By Reg Green Maybe these robots are not so smart after all. As this year’s college graduates disperse, AI Overview sums up their future like this: ‘Life’s path unfurls, a […]